This weekend I’m at a family reunion on the property I grew up in, and a few days before I came there was a major storm that knocked trees down all over town. One of the trees that came down was a huge, beautiful maple that was at least 150 years old. By the time I got there, it had already been chipped, but there were a few branches left and I looked at the grain: tiger maple. Anyone have a time machine and a portable band mill?

-- "When you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think straight" - Inherit the Wind